Trump’s marketing campaign has spent a whopping quantity on quick meals – right here’s the breakdown | EUROtoday

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Donald Trump’s marketing campaign’s large spending at quick meals retailers has been revealed – and the president is clearly lovin’ it.

Between January 2023 and September 20, 2024, the Republican nominee’s marketing campaign spent a whopping $31,000 at McDonald’s, in accordance with the Washington Post.

The outlet reviewed FEC filings for federal candidates in that interval. In whole, filings confirmed $35,900 was spent at McDonald’s, which means the Trump marketing campaign made up for 86 p.c of all candidates’ spending on the chain in that timeframe.

Trump’s admiration for McDonald’s isn’t new, with two of his former aides revealing his typical meal in a 2017 guide: “two Big Macs, two Fillet-O-Fish and a chocolate malt.” The former president additionally famously ordered McDonald’s to the White House as he welcomed Clemson University’s soccer group after their win within the College Football Playoff National Championship amid a authorities shutdown.

But it wasn’t solely Big Macs and McFlurries that Republicans have been chowing down on. The whole GOP operation additionally spent $200,000 Chick-Fil-A, roughly 20 occasions greater than Democrats, The Post’s evaluation discovered. The Biden-Harris marketing campaign, in the meantime, particularly spent over $7,000 at Panera Bread, topping the checklist of fast-casual eating places visited by the Democratic group, in accordance with the outlet.

Republican campaigns spent 18 occasions as a lot as Democrats fast-food eating places.

Democrats is probably not visiting fast-food joints as typically, but it surely doesn’t imply they don’t need their meals rapidly. Democrats outspent the GOP by about $80,000 by getting their grub delivered on apps like Uber Eats and DoorDash.

The Post additionally discovered that there was a partisan divide over cuisines. Democrats frequented Mexican, Spanish and Chinese meals, whereas Republicans spent greater than twice as a lot as Democrats on BBQ.

Campaigns on each side of the aisle appear to equally take pleasure in Italian, French and, after all, American meals.

All in all, the Post’s evaluation checked out a complete of 21,000 receipts value a collective $13 million.

McDonald’s has been talked about a number of occasions on the marketing campaign path, with Trump typically refusing to imagine that Harris labored there.

The vp repeatedly talked about her time working at McDonald’s earlier than her first regulation job within the Nineteen Eighties. If elected in November, she’d make historical past as the primary US president to have labored on the fast-food restaurant.

On August 31, she posted on X: “Two middle-class kids. One, a daughter of Oakland, California, who was raised by a working mother and had a summer job at McDonald’s.”

Later that day, he took to Truth Social to write down: “Comrade Kamala Harris lied about working at McDonald’s. SHE NEVER WORKED THERE, they think she’s ‘nuts.’”

Weeks later, he repeated the accusation. “She never worked at McDonalds, it’s a lie,” Trump declared at a California rally. “She said she stood over those french fries when they were being fried, and it was so tough work.”